One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

Evil racist thugs. Israelis are hateful and intolerant. Yet always crying victim at the slightest pushback. A sick and twisted society.

Israeli forces have killed at least 8 Palestinians, including two women and a teenager, in attacks on the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps in the occupied West Bank.

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Can we have Israel bombed, currently no, despite its efforts to take over land that doesn't belong to them!

The movement, which extended into and beyond a previously demilitarised buffer zone, was condemned 'in the strongest possible terms' by Egypt, which said it amounted to the 'occupation of Syrian land' and a 'severe breach' of a 1974 armistice deal. ft.com/content/5690c07a-9841-4339-b6ca-b3e98b241f1c

“Even Yoav Gallant says that Israel has reached its objectives in Gaza so why is the war continuing? Is it because Benjamin Netanyahu wants to make a gift to Donald Trump as a new president rather than Joe Biden?” – Former French PM Dominique de Villepin.

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Will some out in Bluesky explain Israel

Israel should be accountable for all it's criminality towards Middle East. Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon and now Syria, yet Europe and US are letting it happen! WTF!! Can we sell more arms to Middle East to bolster it's defense then bomb it all to purchase again